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Comment by max_on_hn

2 months ago

I am incredibly eager to see what affordable coding agents can do for open source :) in fact, I should really be giving away CheepCode[0] credits to open source projects. Pending any sort of formal structure, if you see this comment and want free coding agent runs, email me and I’ll set you up!

[0] My headless coding agents product, similar to “assign to copilot” but works from your task board (Linear, Jira, etc) on multiple tasks in parallel. So far simple/routine features are already quite successful. In general the better the tests, the better the resulting code (and yes, it can and does write its own tests).

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troupo  2 months ago

> I am incredibly eager to see what affordable coding agents can do for open source :)

Oh, we know exactly what they will do: they will drive devs insane: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my...

  • losvedir  2 months ago

    I dunno, looking through those issues I'd be more annoyed by all the randos grandstanding in my PRs.

    • troupo  2 months ago

      And not all the "fix this - i fixed - no you didn't - here's the fix — there's no fix" back and forth with the AI?

      There's very little grandstanding in the comments. They are all very tame, all things considered.

dr_dshiv  2 months ago

Especially since the EU just made open source contributors liable for cybersecurity (Cyber Resilience Act). Just let AI contribute and ur good